The Spider

by Chris Brown, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England

When I still lived at home, we had a candidate for dumbest cat of all time. It lost a fight with a money spider. Poor Blackie.

This tiny spider approached said cat which, on noticing it, stuck her nose out to investigate. One small lick would have terminated the spider very thoroughly.

• The spider advanced.
• Blackie retreated, at least in part.
• The spider, all 3mm of it, advanced.
• Blackie continued to retreat. Her front legs only.
• The spider advanced.
• When the front legs met the back legs, Blackie fell over, leapt to her feet and scarpered out of sight.
• The spider, not surprisingly, advanced.

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